George Eliot Quotes
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Jack Nicklaus
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
Patrick Chan
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
Earl Weaver
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
Olivia Wilde
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel Alexander
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
Vernor Vinge
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
Gary David Goldberg
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
Damon Lindelof
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
Abigail Washburn
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
Jackie Cooper
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
Irving Paul Lazar
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
Ted Lyons
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
R. L. Stine
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
Barack Obama
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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
Fernando Pessoa
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I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites on each book.
Kimberly Willis Holt
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
Patti Smith
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Oh, for the sake of momentumI've allowed my fears to get larger than life.And it's brought me to my current agendumWhereupon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive.And I know life is getting shorter,I can't bring myself to set the scene.Even when it's approaching torture,I've got my routine.
Aimee Mann
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
Dan Lipinski
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
Robert Frost
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot